As part of KETV NewsWatch 7's comprehensive coverage of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, we will preview the upcoming season in the coming days and weeks, parsing data from recent seasons, assessing the regular-season schedule and looking ahead to what might be found in Mike Riley's second season at the helm of the program.

I'm not willing to bet against a man who wears the same khakis to work every single day.

Look at it this way: In his first season on campus, Harbaugh turned a five-win, overwhelmingly lackluster squad into a 10-win team ranked No. 12 in the nation. Sure, Ohio State bludgeoned them into the abyss last year, but that was the only game Michigan lost by more than seven points.

College Football Reference's Simple Rating System takes into account average point differential and strength of schedule to determine how many points above or below average a team was. Last year's Wolverines finished with a 16.34 SRS, the highest mark for the program in a decade, and the third-highest mark in the past 20 years.

A caveat: I'm picking Michigan to be contrarian (Ohio State is favored by literally everyone), but that's a risk worth taking. Harbaugh won immediately at Stanford and in San Francisco, with arguably fewer resources. I don't expect his stint at Michigan to be anything other than successful.